UH Coach’s Corner: Kicking with Tony Levine (w/video)

I recently had the chance to catch up with Houston assistant head coach and special teams coordinator Tony Levine to discuss his special teams units and what they will look like heading into fall camp.

In the coming days as I begin to take you inside the depth chart, I’ll share with you the things Levine had to say. But before we get to that, I have a Coach’s Corner segment for you.

In our discussion, we talked a lot about field goal kicking and the details that go into it and how precise things have to be to lead to a successful attempt. I found the amount of details interesting, so I had coach Levine go down to the turf at Yeoman Fieldhouse and explain those things on video. Special thanks to quality control assistant Kenny Bell, who posed as the holder for us.

We didn’t go into the deep snapping for this segment and only focused on the kicking portion (I’ll save deep snapping for a later time).

But there’s a bit more precision that goes into a kick than you might think, from where the holder must focus to the exact spot in which a kicker prefers the ball to be placed. Take a look:

(Also note: be sure to turn the volume up when Levine starts speaking because the microphone on the Flip camera I used didn’t pick up his voice quite as well as I would have liked).